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  God, Guns, and the Tragedy of Sutherland Springs Explored in New Book

  February 28 at 4 a.m.

  On November 5, 2017, Joe Holley was busily signing his work at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, and had heard someone mention something about a shooting somewhere near San Antonio. As he drove home toward Houston, the CNN radio report began trickling out more details: A massacre with multiple...

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  Posthumous Memoir of Music Exec Tells Tales of T. Rex, Pink Floyd, Wham! and More...

  February 14 at 4 a.m.

  Have a Cigar! The Memoir of the Man Behind Pink Floyd, T. Rex, The Jam, and George Michael By Bryan Morrison 224 pp. Quiller Publishing $39.95 Of all the inductees into this year’s class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it’s the one of oldest vintage that stands...

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  Words With Friends: Danez Smith Brings Their Homie To Houston This Week

  January 30 at 4 a.m.

  On the phone with a modern master of the subject, we ask Danez Smith about words. Smith is one of America’s rising literary stars, a black, queer, gender-neutral, HIV-positive writer from St. Paul, Minnesota whose latest collection, Homie, just released via Graywolf Press. It’s the follow-up to their highly-acclaimed 2017...

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  Leif Garrett: An American Idol

  January 10 at 4 a.m.

  It’s one thing to make a memorable stage entrance, but this was something way out of the ordinary. That’s what was going through 17-year-old Leif Garrett’s mind on the evening of February 25, 1979 as he charged across the dirt floor of the Astrodome on a white horse and carrying...

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  What If We Threw a Bible and No God Came?

  Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Pastor Nathan Roberts explores one central question in his new book of stories, Deserted. What would classic tales from the Old Testament be like if God just wasn’t there? In the hands of a gifted author, it can be quite the re-calibration of the American worldview. Roberts opens his book...

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  A Very Filthy Christmas: John Waters Is Coming to Town

  Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 5 a.m.

  Every year, like clockwork, there are signs of the upcoming holiday season. It can be something as subtle as a mailbox overflowing with junk mail to the giant bows atop of fancy shopping centers. John Waters and his annual Christmas show can be added to the list of indicators that...